How much does Canada owe in climate aid? How bout Zero? Zip? Nada?

How much does Canada owe in climate aid? A trillion-dollar question headlines COP29

This year’s international climate talks are expected to be headlined by fraught negotiations over how Canada and other wealthy countries, who have contributed a disproportionate share of planet-warming emissions, should financially compensate other nations in their fight to tackle climate change.

Many pressing questions for negotiators are on the table: How much should those wealthy countries pay? Which countries will have to contribute? And how should the money be provided?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

The World As It Is

Not As We Wish It Were: Random Observations From The Weekend

Good morning from Delaware. I hit the ground running here at the ISI conference, and have barely had time to breathe. Thank God for coffee, else the remnants of the Man Cold and the jet lag would have torn me down. Our dear Linda Arnold brought me Sudafed for the trip, which, along with strong coffee, is keeping me going. Thank you, Linda, for taking such good care of your scribe!

I’m writing this morning — Sunday, before I head to the airport to fly back to Europe — because we are in such an incredible moment. The ISI conference was full of conservative academics, and it’s fair to say that everybody here can hardly believe what just happened in our country this week. For once, “morning in America” doesn’t seem like a stale 1980s cliche.

This is a link to the Thomas Frank column in the NYTimes Dreher discusses. Both pieces are very good reads despite Frank’s TDS.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Canada’s answer to Trump 2.0 worries? Everything’s fine.

OTTAWA — When Donald Trump returns to the White House, Canada will stare down the possibility of a 20 percent tariff, an influx of asylum seekers and no end of hassle over its lackluster defense spending.

Justin Trudeau’s response in the days since Trump’s emphatic victory: Everything is fine.

Canada’s prime minister has unleashed a tiger team of texters — top ministers and senior Trudeau aides who appear tighter with their U.S. counterparts than Trudeau is with Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2024, USA

Progressive Democrats push to take over party leadership

Progressive Democrats are pushing to take over the party leadership as in-fighting breaks out following Kamala Harris’s election defeat.

Left-wingers are hoping to install Ben Wikler, the Wisconsin Democratic chairman, to take over the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and swing it away from the current centrist leadership ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Pramila Jayapal, who leads the Democrats’ progressive faction in Congress, has said she would “love to see somebody” who is “like a Ben Wikler”, Politico reports.

Like they need crazier???

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, WTF?

SLOBODIAN: ‘Vigil’ to honour terrorists hijacks Remembrance Day symbol

Muslims Desecrate Remembrance Day

A vigil planned in Mississauga to honour dead Hamas terrorist leaders has desecrated Canada’s revered Remembrance Day symbols.

And so those who love terrorists now freely mock Canada and disdain what we value and cherish. In boldly appropriating a symbol reserved for our veterans — both the living and the dead — men and women who bravely rose to many challenges and sacrificed so much in so many places for so long for Canada, they insult us all. Which of course is part of the plan, to show elsewhere how tamely Canadians accept the contempt of others.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Remembrance Day

Susan Sarandon: ‘I was dropped by my agent, my projects were pulled’

Another teenaged dream crushed.

The actress, 78, thought her politics would never harm her career. Now she tells Will Pavia she may never act in a big-budget Hollywood movie again

‘You wanna hear a story about Brando?” asks Susan Sarandon, her bouncy auburn hair sprayed out across her shoulders; those potent eyes of hers looking at me over Zoom from behind a pair of thick, grey-blue-framed glasses. It’s a gorgeous day in New York City’s West Village, sunshine warms the wall behind her and a tabby cat named Ida sprawls at her side.

Who wouldn’t want to hear a story from her about Marlon Brando? She shrugs her grey cardigan off her shoulders and gives me a look that says: hold on to your hat.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Fen Osler Hampson and Tim Sargent: With Trump’s victory, a Canadian foreign policy reset is more urgent than ever

Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the U.S. presidential election will have profound consequences for international relations over the next four years and beyond.

While domestic issues were likely at the forefront of most voters’ minds when they cast their ballots, there is no denying that many Americans think that the world has become a more dangerous place during the tenure of the Biden administration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2024

What Trump Can—and Can’t—Do on Day One

WASHINGTON—The wheels are now in motion to help President-elect Donald Trump act on an ambitious “day one” agenda involving a range of policy and personnel shake-ups, such as mass deportations and the firing of generals.

Transition staff, and the handful of outside policy shops that have been offering their input, are helping to craft executive orders that would implement some of his proposals. Transition personnel are also working to incorporate his vision for various agencies in their planning efforts.

Here are some of Trump’s campaign promises for how he will spend his first day in office…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Catholic Bishops Stumble on Immigration

America’s Catholic bishops are giving President-elect Donald Trump a mixed reception ahead of his second term. Following Trump’s overwhelming victory in Tuesday’s election, Archbishop Timonthy Broglio, head of the Military Archdiocese and president of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference (USCCB), issued a statement congratulating the 45th and 47th President on his victory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Catholic Church, President Trump

A ‘resistance’ raced to fight Trump’s first term. Will it rise again?

MS-13 Dreamers

After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory, Teresa Shook wasted little time: Shocked into action, the retiree took to Facebook as soon as she learned the results and with one post sparked a movement that would eventually become the Women’s March, then the largest single-day demonstration in American history.

But this year, in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s second election, she’s in no mood to organize.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Did celebrities have to be paid to endorse Kamala?

Even those of us who were appalled by Kamala Harris’s campaign, the ever more embarrassing interviews during which she could not answer the simplest of questions unless they were what she ate for breakfast, did not realize that employing celebrity endorsers cost millions of dollars.  Most of us probably assumed that those who graced her rally stages or interviewed her for television or podcasts did so because they actually supported her.  We were wrong.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?